As for the cat, dog and birds photo, I guess the only thing to say is a homely, "well I never". We have cats, dogs and birds and this picture would be impossible in our house. Since the image is of such recent vintage, possibly it records the first instance of this phenomenon. Or maybe Argentina is just different.

emptinessis the beginningandthe endgenerouslyembracingall the hands that extend...

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Tom...dear grand spirit... you have called all the souls here, eh?:)how i feel at home... they talk to me... all of them... their flutter... their caress... their being together... the way that crow gives meaning to the direction the marble woman is looking...

you write a poem... and haunt part of our mind and heart... then you add some pictures... and then we are just spellbound! your choice is poetry too...

thanks for this and the rest of this soulful series... you are a gem!

namaste!

(ps. i'm really honored to be invited to this festival of dancing souls...)

Glad you liked the photo, thank you for respecting the license. I took this a couple of weekends ago while on a bike ride around the the former river front. There was a large bus (that people were living in?) parked on the side of the street. They seemed to have a couple of puppies and this cat. They were hanging out and I took a bunch of snaps and caught this wonderful moment. The cat was perched up on the electrical box? sort of half-assed hunting the pigeons and the puppies wanted to play!

So lovely to hear from you! I have long harboured great admiration for your photos and your blog. This photo captures a wonderful moment of natural abundance amid the teeming flow of life.

And... yes, small world... speaking of Bolinas... we were there from 1968 to 1978, the first five years out on the lip of the mesa near Duxbury Reef, the next five years mid-mesa, just around the (muddy) corner from where you grew up. Our daughter was a classmate of your brother Walter. So, appropriately enough, in some way it stays "all in the family"!

Tom - what a wonderful connection! I was three in 1978, so sorry for not remembering the link. ::waves hi from Argentina:: It is great to connect here on the blogosphere. I am glad that you like my photos and my blog. I look forward to staying in touch.

My gosh, I've just now read through the comments that came in yesterday -- yes, the proverbial small world (!). Oona is a painter in New York, just had baby (Oona Emmanuelle), Johnny (my now 5 year old child) and I are going there in 10 days to see them again. And your photo from Buenos Aires 'appears' here, followed by our talking back and forth about Bolinas.What does it all mean (?), these parallel universes. . . .